JAY MERRICK REPORTS FROM HELSINKI

摘要

Protesters against the contest stood outside the Bio Rex cinema, designed in the 1930s by Viljo Revell. The Finnish architect won the commission while still a student architect, so there was a certain resonance inside its auditorium as jury chair Mark Wigley announced the shortlisted architects for the Guggenheim Helsinki. Fake Industries Architectural Agonism? How obscure can a practice contrive to make itself, even though Wigley may have an inkling about these products of Columbia University, being dean of its graduate school of architecture. How ordinary Asif Khan and the cosmopolitan blend of Moreau Kusunoki seem in comparison.